電影講述了上世紀九十年代的哈薩克小鎮，四個少年各自的生命之路。扎哈拉斯正在備受父親的煎熬，後者因曾是一個詐騙犯而找不到工作，為了幫助父親，他不得不在玉米加工廠打工。巴拉潘有一把好嗓子，能夠將“萬福瑪麗亞”唱的娓娓動聽，然而校園生活教會他的是使用自己的拳頭而不是聲音。扎哈巴則在流浪在村子裏的垃圾堆中，尋找可以賣的廢金屬，他與其他三名同齡離家出走的男孩子睡在廢棄的隧道中。阿斯蘭正在為醫藥學努力，然而當他説服自己的女朋友墮胎之後，他的人格發生了徹底的改變。 A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy takes on casual work at a corn merchant’s. Balapan can sing ‘Ave Maria’ as clear as a bell but his schoolmates provoke him into using his fists rather than his voice. Zhaba roams about the village ruins looking for waste metal he can sell. He comes across three bedraggled boys of his own age who have run away from a nearby home and are sleeping in a derelict tunnel. Aslan is about to take up studies in medicine but, after having persuaded his girlfriend to have an abortion, he undergoes a complete change in personality. After scoring a hit with his first film Harmony Lessons, which screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013, Emir Baigazin’s new work The Wounded Angel describes the mood of teenagers growing up in a time of great upheaval. The film marks the second part of a visually stunning trilogy about young people and their complex relationships in a world without a moral yardstick. berlinale 2016
